AI-Weekly for Tuesday, June 25, 2024 – Issue 118

The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence

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A.) The Pixelbot 3000 Turns Simple AI Prompts Into Lego Mosaic Masterpieces | TheVerge.com | June 17, 2024

This custom printer uses DALL-E 3 to turn anything you can think of into brick-built art.

B.) OpenAI And Apple Announce Partnership | OpenAI.com | June 10, 2024

Apple is integrating ChatGPT into experiences within iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, allowing users to access ChatGPT’s capabilities — including image and document understanding — without needing to jump between tools.

C.) iPadOS 18 Introduces Powerful Intelligence Features And Apps For Apple Pencil | Apple.com | June 10, 2024

iPadOS 18 takes iPad to the next level with Apple Intelligence, the introduction of Calculator with Math Notes, new handwriting tools in Notes, additional ways to customize iPad, and more.

D.) This Company is Quietly Powering the AI Revolution | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | June 17, 2024

I had the opportunity to learn about Cisco and the AI that they’re implementing.

E.) Macos Sequoia Takes Productivity And Intelligence On Mac To New Heights | Apple.com | June 10, 2024

The Mac experience gets better than ever with iPhone Mirroring, big updates to Safari, highly anticipated games, and Apple Intelligence to deliver all-new capabilities.

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5.) Claude 3.5 Is The New KING of AI Beats GPT4o | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | June 24, 2024

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the new benchmark for AI. Here’s my full test!

6.) Synthesia Announces Platform Update With Interactive AI Videos, Full-Body Avatars | VentureBeat.com | June 24, 2024

Today, London-based Synthesia, a startup that enables enterprises to create professional-grade AI videos, announced a major update for its platform, aimed at providing a well-rounded suite for accelerating their video-first communication initiatives.

7.) Major Record Labels Sue AI Company Behind ‘BBL Drizzy’ | TheVerge.com | June 24, 2024

Citing ‘en masse’ copyright infringement, the RIAA and labels sued Udio, the company behind the hit track, and Suno, an AI music company with a Microsoft partnership.

8.) Emergence Thinks It Can Crack The AI Agent Code | TechCrunch.com | June 24, 2024

Yet another generative AI venture has raised a bundle of money. And, like the others before it, it’s promising the moon. Emergence, whose co-founders include Satya Nitta, the former head of global AI solutions at IBM’s research division, on Monday emerged from stealth with $97.2 million in funding from Learn Capital plus credit lines totaling more than $100 million. Emergence claims to be building an “agent-based” system that can perform many of the tasks typically handled by knowledge workers, in part by routing these tasks to first- and third-party generative AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o.

9.) Humane Teases Three Major Features the AI Pin Should Already Have | Inverse.com | June 24, 2024

Despite brutal launch reviews and reports that the startup is looking to be acquired, Humane is cooking. Now that it’s rolled out its big Cosmos 1.1.4 software update to all AI Pin users — improvements include faster AI responses and reduced thermals — Humane seems to be working hard to deliver on at least some of the features it promised for Cosmos 1.2 slated for this Summer.

10.) How We Created Our Google AI Essentials Course | Google.com | June 24, 2024

Try the course if you want to improve your AI-Q.

11.) Updates On How We’re Using AI To Support Students And Educators | Google.com | June 24, 2024

We’re responsibly bringing Gemini to teenage students to help them learn confidently, and adding dozens of new AI-powered tools to Chromebooks and Google Workspace for Education to help educators make learning more personal and engaging.

12.) Shopify’s AI ‘Sidekick’ Chatbot For Merchants Is Now In Early Access | TheVerge.com | June 24, 2024

The company is announcing a bunch of AI-focused updates.

13.) Research: Using AI at Work Makes Us Lonelier and Less Healthy | HBR.org | June 24, 2024

Imagine this: Jia, a marketing analyst, arrives at work, logs into her computer, and is greeted by an AI assistant that has already sorted through her emails, prioritized her tasks for the day, and generated first drafts of reports that used to take hours to write. Jia (like everyone who has spent time working with these tools) marvels at how much time she can save by using AI. Inspired by the efficiency-enhancing effects of AI, Jia feels that she can be so much more productive than before. As a result, she gets focused on completing as many tasks as possible in conjunction with her AI assistant.

14.) Meta Is Incorrectly Marking Real Photos As ‘Made By AI’ | TheVerge.com | June 24, 2024

Many photographers say Meta added the label to photos they made or enhanced with editing tools.

15.) Apple’s EU AI Delay: Innovation vs Regulation | ArtificialIntelligence-News.com | June 24, 2024

Apple announced on Friday that it would block its highly anticipated Apple Intelligence AI features, iPhone Mirroring, and SharePlay Screen Sharing for EU users. While not entirely unexpected, this decision underscores the growing tension between rapid technological advancement and the EU’s stringent regulatory framework, particularly the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

16.) Google is Conducting Research To Understand Brain-Connectivity, AKA Connectomics | Forbes.com | June 24, 2024

Congruent to its expansive achievements with AI, novel hardware, and robust cloud computing services, Google has been investing significant resources into an area of science that isn’t as frequently covered by the media: brain connectivity research. This field, formally known as connectomics, specifically refers to the study of connections within an organism’s nervous system. While significant work has been done with the nervous system in general, connectomics goes one step further to delve into the insights that mapping and understanding neuron-to-neuron connectivity can provide with regards to behavior and action.

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17.) Mixture of Agents (MoA) BEATS GPT4o With Open-Source (Fully Tested) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | June 23, 2024

Full test of Mixture of Experts implementation.

18.) Almost Timely News: How to Use Generative AI for Professional Development | Christopher Penn | YouTube.com | June 23, 2024

In today’s episode, you’ll discover how to unlock the hidden potential of generative AI for your professional development. You’ll learn four powerful stages to leverage AI, transforming your existing knowledge into actionable insights and even marketable products. Discover how to turn your past webinars, presentations, and even social media posts into a goldmine of professional growth. Don’t miss out on these valuable strategies to enhance your expertise and unlock new opportunities in your field.

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19.) AI News: ChatGPT is in BIG Trouble | Matt Wolfe | YouTube.com | June 22, 2024

Here’s the news you might have missed this week.

20.) Claude Beats GPT4o, Q* is Here, Ex-OpenAI Founder is Back, Elon’s AI Factory, $1M AGI Prize | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | June 22, 2024

Claude 3.5 dropped and beat ChatGPT, a paper implementing what seems to be Q* is published, Ilya Sutskever starts a new company, Elon is building a massive AI factory, and Meta AI releases many open-source projects, including multi-modal!

21.) A Peek Inside San Francisco’s AI Boom | WashingtonPost.com | June 22, 2024

In an opulent ballroom on a Saturday night, the classic pump-up anthem “Eye of the Tiger” blared as artificial intelligence enthusiasts tapped away on their keyboards. This was a hackathon — an event where participants have a set amount of time to collaborate on a project they present to the crowd — at a sprawling mansion about 30 minutes south of San Francisco.

June 21, 2024 📅️

22.) Apple Intelligence Much More Than “Just ChatGPT” | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | June 21, 2024

There seems to be massive confusion about Apple’s AI launch. Many people think it’s simply OpenAI powering everything, which couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s a full breakdown of what they’re offering.

23.) OpenAI’s First Acquisition Is An Enterprise Data Startup | TheVerge.com | June 21, 2024

The maker of ChatGPT will integrate Rockset’s enterprise search tech into its products.

24.) Helping Nonexperts Build Advanced Generative AI Models | MIT.edu | June 21, 2024

MosaicML, co-founded by an MIT alumnus and a professor, made deep-learning models faster and more efficient. Its acquisition by Databricks broadened that mission.

25.) Grok 1.5 Potential Use Of Midjourney For Image Generation Gains Evidence | BOLNews.com | June 21, 2024

Earlier this year in February, there were rumors that xAI was in discussions with Midjourney about a potential partnership. Since then, there has been no further information about these talks. However, a recent discovery found a reference to Midjourney in the codebase of the standalone version of Grok.

26.) Apple Won’t Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns | Bloomberg.com | June 21, 2024

Company plans to withhold Apple Intelligence from EU this year. Big Tech company cites worries over EU’s Digital Markets Act.

27.) OpenAI Acquires Rockset | OpenAI.com | June 21, 2024

Enhancing our retrieval infrastructure to make AI more helpful.

28.) Amazon’s New AI-Powered Alexa Might Cost Up To $10 Per Month | TheVerge.com | June 21, 2024

A version of Alexa revamped with new generative AI tech could ‘learn’ from your routines and fulfill more advanced requests, according to Reuters.

29.) Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet beats GPT-4o In Most Benchmarks | ArtificialIntelligence-News.com | June 21, 2024

Anthropic has launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its mid-tier model that outperforms competitors and even surpasses Anthropic’s current top-tier Claude 3 Opus in various evaluations.

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30.) AI the Product vs AI the Feature | Marques Brownlee | YouTube.com | June XX, 2024

The new Siri vs the RabbitR1 and Humane pin.

31.) Hey Siri, Is Elon Musk Right About the Apple-OpenAI Deal? | The Next Wave | YouTube.com | June 20, 2024

Is the Apple-OpenAI Deal a Strategic Move or Just a Stopgap? Nathan Lands and Matt Wolfe delve into the intricacies of the recent Apple and OpenAI collaboration. This episode explores the potential limitations for OpenAI’s pro paying members, the speculation around Apple possibly paying for OpenAI’s tech, and the implication of this on the future AI developments by Apple themselves. They also dive deep into the rapid advancements of AI, the risks of deepfakes, trademark infringements, and how AI’s integration into daily devices could reshape our interaction with technology.

32.) Pushing This AI Beast To Its Limit (2x RTX 6000) | Matthew Berman | YouTube.com | June 20, 2024

Let’s see what this $30K PC can do!

33.) Apple, Microsoft Shrink AI Models to Improve Them “Small Language Models” Emerge As An Alternative To Gargantuan AI Options | Spectrum.ieee.org | June 20, 2024

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman believes we’re at the end of the era of giant models.

34.) Researchers Describe How To Tell If ChatGPT Is Confabulating | ArsTechnica.com | June 20, 2024

Finding out whether the AI is uncertain about facts or phrasing is the key.

35.) We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI | Wired.com | June 20, 2024

Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary.

36.) How Generative AI Could Reinvent What It Means To Play | TechnologyReview.com | June 20, 2024

AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games — and other worlds — deeply immersive.

37.) Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet Wows AI Power Users: ‘This Is Wild’ | VentureBeat.com | June 20, 2024

A new large language model (LLM) has apparently taken the performance crown from OpenAI’s GPT-4o about a month after its release: the new Claude 3.5 Sonnet chatbot and LLM from rival AI firm Anthropic, released today, bests all others in the world on key third-party benchmark tests, according to the company. And it does so while being faster and cheaper than prior Claude 3 models.

38.) Leonardo AI Launches A New Model — Can It Dethrone Ideogram As Best Image Generator? | Decrypt.Co | June 20, 2024

Leonardo AI’s latest release, Leonardo Phoenix, brings a host of new features and improvements.

39.) Swallow This Robot: Endiatx’s Tiny Pill Examines Your Body With Cameras Sensors | VentureBeat.com | June 20, 2024

In a development straight out of science fiction, Endiatx, a pioneering medical technology company, is making significant strides in bringing its robotic pill to market. The company’s CEO, Torrey Smith, recently sat down with VentureBeat to share exciting updates on their progress, nearly two years after our initial coverage of the startup’s ambitious vision.

40.) Walmart Tech Executive Joins Paypal As Its New ‘AI-Focused’ Cto | TechTimes.com | June 20, 2024

PayPal taps former Walmart tech executive Srini Venkatesan as Chief Technology Officer to drive AI-powered innovations.

41.) Empowering Defenders Through Our Cybersecurity Grant Program | OpenAI.com | June 20, 2024

Highlighting innovative research and AI integration in cybersecurity.

42.) Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Anthropic.com | June 20, 2024

Today, we’re launching Claude 3.5 Sonnet — our first release in the forthcoming Claude 3.5 model family. Claude 3.5 Sonnet raises the industry bar for intelligence, outperforming competitor models and Claude 3 Opus on a wide range of evaluations, with the speed and cost of our mid-tier model, Claude 3 Sonnet.

June 19, 2024 📅️

43.) (Interview With Mira Murati, CTO, OpenAI) AI Everywhere: Transforming Our World, Empowering Humanity | Dartmouth Engineering | YouTube.com | June 19, 2024

Dartmouth Engineering hosted an exclusive conversation with alum and OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati Th’12. She discussed the artificial intelligence (Al) behind ChatGPT and DALL•E as well as ongoing safety and ethical considerations, and future impacts. Moderator: Dartmouth Trustee Jeffrey Blackburn ’91.

44.) Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine | Wired.com | June 19, 2024

A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping — and making things up out of thin air.

45.) Musk’s xAI Supercomputer Will Get Server Racks From Dell And Super Micro | FastCompany.com | June 19, 2024

Dell is assembling half of the racks for xAI’s supercomputer, Musk said on X.

46.) AI Build Launches New Version Of Its AI-Powered 3D Printing Software | 3DPrintingIndustry.com | June 19, 2024

London-based 3D printing software developer AI Build has launched AIbuild 2.0, the latest version of its cloud-based, artificial intelligence (AI) powered software.

47.) Apple Intelligence Will Label AI-Generated Images In Metadata | CNet.com | June 19, 2024

Apple joins OpenAI, Adobe, Google and Microsoft in adding data to help identify such images.

48.) Microsoft Drops Florence-2 A Unified Model To Handle A Variety Of Vision Tasks | VentureBeat.com | June 19, 2024

Today, Microsoft’s Azure AI team dropped a new vision foundation model called Florence-2 on Hugging Face.

49.) OpenAI’s Former Chief Scientist Is Starting A New AI Company | TheVerge.com | June 19, 2024

Ilya Sutskever is launching Safe Superintelligence Inc., an AI startup that will prioritize safety over ‘commercial pressures.’

June 18, 2024 📅️

50.) Apple’s Vision Pro Team Is Reportedly Focused On Building A Cheaper Headset | TheVerge.com | June 18, 2024

Apple may not launch another high-end Vision device.

51.) Nvidia Is The Most Valuable Company In The World | Axios.com | June 18, 2024

On Thursday, Apple was the most valuable company in the world. On Monday, it was Microsoft. On Tuesday, for the first time ever, it was Nvidia. Why it matters: Nvidia is a relative newcomer to the world of megacaps: It only broke through the $1 trillion barrier in mid-2023. Now it has eclipsed all of its competitors, thanks to broad excitement about artificial intelligence — which is overwhelmingly powered by Nvidia’s chips.

52.) Releasing New AI Research Models To Accelerate Innovation At Scale | About.Fb.com | June 18, 2024

We believe that access to state-of-the-art AI creates opportunities for everyone. Today, Meta’s Fundamental AI Research team is publicly releasing several models to accelerate future research and allow others to innovate and apply AI at scale.

53.) Top Things To Know About Copilot+ Pcs From Microsoft Surface Available Today At Microsoft.com | Blogs.Windows.com | June 18, 2024

Available today, the all-new Copilot+ PCs from Microsoft Surface — Surface Laptop and Surface Pro — are thin, light and beautiful devices that help you do more of what you love. Whether it’s starting a new creative project, connecting with friends and family or pursuing a new business venture, these devices are designed to support your journey.

Last Week 📅️

54.) Meet Symphony Avatars: TikTok’s New Creative AI Tool | Newsroom.TikTok.com | June 17, 2024

Creativity thrives on TikTok. When brands truly lean into creative bravery and experimentation, they are able to speak directly to their community and invite them to join in the conversation. At TikTok World 2024 we launched Symphony, our suite of ad solutions powered by generative AI. Today, we are excited to unveil Symphony Digital Avatars, AI Dubbing for global translations, and our Symphony Collective to help creators and brands produce TikTok-first content that breaks through.

55.) Feds Private Sector Run First-Ever Simulation Of An AI Cyberattack | Axios.com | June 17, 2024

Federal officials, AI model operators and cybersecurity companies ran the first joint simulation of a cyberattack involving a critical AI system last week.

56.) Google Deepmind Shifts From Research Lab To AI Product Factory | Bloomberg.com | June 17, 2024

The company combined its two AI labs to develop commercial services, a move that could undermine its long-running strength in foundational research.

57.) Perplexity Now Displays Results For Temperature Currency Conversion And Simple Math | TechCrunch.com | June 17, 2024

Amid ongoing controversy about handling of media articles and original reporting, AI-powered search startup Perplexity now displays results for factual queries such as weather and time at a place, currency conversion, and answers to simple math queries directly through cards. This is a move to stop Perplexity users from going to other search engines like Google for such results.

58.) Adobe Acrobat Reimagines Documents For Multi-Format AI-Powered Work | Adobe.com | June 17, 2024

In today’s digital age, PDF has become one of the most widely used mediums for exchanging and collaborating on documents. Adobe Acrobat, the leading platform for working with PDFs, has continuously evolved to meet the needs of our customers. Today, we unveiled major advancements in Adobe Acrobat that will expand what you can do with PDF and other types of documents, transforming Acrobat into multi-format, AI-powered environment for surfacing insights across documents, creating and editing compelling visuals and content and collaboration. To give even more people an opportunity to experience AI-powered document experiences, we’re also offering free, unlimited access to Acrobat AI Assistant from June 18 until June 28.

59.) Google Deepmind Unveils News Research – Generating Audio For Video | Deepmind.Google | June 17, 2024

Video-to-audio research uses video pixels and text prompts to generate rich soundtracks.

60.) China’s DeepSeek Coder Becomes First Open-Source Coding Model To Beat GPT-4 Turbo | VentureBeat.com | June 17, 2024

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which previously made headlines with a ChatGPT competitor trained on 2 trillion English and Chinese tokens, has announced the release of DeepSeek Coder V2, an open-source mixture of experts (MoE) code language model.

61.) Apple Embraces Open-Source AI With 20 Core Ml Models On Hugging Face Platform | VentureBeat.com | June 17, 2024

Apple has made a significant stride in its efforts to empower developers with cutting-edge on-device AI capabilities. The tech giant recently released 20 new Core ML models and 4 datasets on Hugging Face, a leading community platform for sharing AI models and code. This move underscores Apple’s commitment to advancing AI while prioritizing user privacy and efficiency.

62.) Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: A New Frontier For Video Generation | RunwayML.com | June 17, 2024

A new frontier for high-fidelity, controllable video generation.

63.) Apple Intelligence Won’t Work on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones — But Maybe It Could | Wired.com | June 15, 2024

Older iPhones might well be able to cope with Apple’s AI, so why won’t your $900 year-old model run it? Here’s why.

64.) Sam Altman Says OpenAI Could Become A For-Profit Meaning It Could Eventually IPO | NeoWin.Net | June 15, 2024

According to a new report by The Information, Sam Altman is considering making OpenAI a for-profit company that the current non-profit board wouldn’t control. One option being considered is making OpenAI a for-profit benefit corporation, also known as a B-Corp.

65.) AI Candidate Running For Parliament In The U.K. Says AI Can Humanize Politics | NBCNews.com | June 14, 2024

Voters can talk to AI Steve, whose name will be on the ballot for the U.K.’s general election next month, to ask policy questions or raise concerns.

66.) Former Meta Engineers Launch Jace AI That Works Independently | VentureBeat.com | June 14, 2024

Today, Zeta Labs, a London-based startup founded by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, announced the launch of Jace, an LLM-powered AI agent that can execute in-browser actions on command.

67.) Snowden: OpenAI Hiring Former NSA Director Is ‘Willful Calculated Betrayal’ | PCMag.com | June 14, 2024

OpenAI appoints retired US Army General Paul Nakasone to its new Safety and Security Committee. ‘They’ve gone full mask-off,’ NSA leaker Edward Snowden says in response.

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